Word: stressful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...million Plant Stress Lab at Texas Tech University...
Particularly moving are passages describing the beauties of Martha's Vineyard, where her parents own a house in Oak Bluffs and where she retreats after suffering from a nervous breakdown, brought on by the stress...
...four networks last month announced a joint response. Starting in September, they will attach a warning label -- DUE TO SOME VIOLENT CONTENT, PARENTAL DISCRETION ADVISED -- to shows with high levels of mayhem. Over the past two weeks, network executives have trooped before junketing TV journalists in Los Angeles to stress their concerns about violence -- and assert that they aren't the only ones to blame. Next Monday a heavyweight lineup of TV producers, network executives and other industry bigwigs will meet to explore the violence issue at a daylong "summit conference" sponsored by the National Council for Families and Television...
Several things were illuminated by firelight last week: that Gallardo was not welcome; that someone would commit a new crime to stress that; and that it is hard to write good law accommodating the popular belief that once a sexual predator, always a sexual predator...
Elizabeth Smith, assistant professor of psychiatry at Washington University in St. Louis, who has done extensive research into the psychological effects of disasters, expects emotional as well as physical pain among flood survivors. Many, she notes, have been under stress for weeks, since flooding started in some areas as far back as April. People who go through that, Smith notes, react in a different way from those who survive one-shot traumas like fires or plane crashes: they do not experience flashbacks to the disaster or extreme jumpiness but instead suffer prolonged "depression, sadness and feelings of hopelessness." She adds...